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23741. (Jaiya & John Hanauer) Sex Posi­tions You Never Thought Pos­si­ble
23742. (Eric Chris­tiansen) The Norse­men in the Viking Age
23743. (D. Radice & L. Rez­zolla) Uni­ver­sal­ity and Inter­mit­tency in Rel­a­tivis­tic Tur­bu­lent
. . . . . Flows of a Hot Plasma [arti­cle]
23744. (Randi Foxx) The Posi­tion Sex Bible
23745. (Mark Mazzetti) A Secret Deal on Drones, Sealed in Blood [arti­cle]
23746. (Uni­ver­si­dad de Oviedo: Noti­cias) Cien­tí­fi­cos de la Uni­vesi­dad de Oviedo ani­nan la
. . . . . edad de El Sidrón [arti­cle]
23747. (Isma’il Kushkush) Ancient King­doms in Land of War [arti­cle]
23748. (Thibaud Taille­fu­mier & Marcelo O. Mag­nasco) A Phase Tran­si­tion in the First Pas­sage
. . . . . of a Brown­ian Process through a Fluc­tu­at­ing Bound­ary with Impli­ca­tions for Neural
. . . . . Cod­ing [arti­cle]
23749. (Scott Sayare) Islamist Fight­ers Slip Back Into Tim­buktu and Are Repelled by French
. . . . . and Malians [arti­cle]
23750. (H. Y. Cheng et al) Effects of Direc­tional Migra­tion on Prisoner’s Dilemma Game in a
. . . . . Square Domain [arti­cle]
23751. (Kareem Fahim) Egyp­tians Strug­gle As Wary Tourists Stay Away [arti­cle]
23752. (Stephanie Pap­pas) Robes and Shov­els: Medieval Monks Cul­ti­vated Wet­lands [arti­cle]
23753. (Kim DeRose) New Tech­nique for Cool­ing Mol­e­cules May Be Step­ping Stone to
. . . . . Quan­tum Com­put­ing [arti­cle]
23754. (Alpha­Galileo Foun­da­tion) Stone Ships Show Signs of Mar­itime Net­work in Baltic Sea
. . . . . Region 3,000 Years Ago [arti­cle]
23755. (Tom Robi­nette) Study Exam­ines Ancient Puebloans and the Myth of Maize [arti­cle]
23756. (AP PhysOrg) Sci­en­tists Report Hint of Dark Mat­ter in First Results from $2 Bil­lion
. . . . . Cos­mic Ray Detec­tor [arti­cle]
23757. (Julia S. Martín del Campo et al) High-Yield Pro­duc­tion of Dihy­dro­gen from Xylose by
. . . . . Using a Syn­thetic Enzyme Cas­cade in a Cell-Free Sys­tem [arti­cle]
23758. (Steve Muhlberger) [in blog Muhlberg­ers’ World His­tory] Look For a Red Shoe [arti­cle]
23759. (Ted Gioia) Remem­ber­ing Cord­wainer Smith: Full-Time Sci-Fi Author, Part-Time
. . . . . Earth­ling [arti­cle]
23760. [3] (Clif­ford D. Simak) Hud­dling Place [story]
23761. (Space Daily) The Human Immune Sys­tem in Space [arti­cle]
23762. (Steve Muhlberger) [in blog Muhlberg­ers’ World His­tory] Con­demned Out of His Own
. . . . . Mouth — Rand Paul [arti­cle]
23763. (Tom Engel­hardt) [in blog TomDis­patch] The Enemy-Industrial Com­plex [arti­cle]
23764. (Richard A. Bau­man) Crime and Pun­ish­ment in Ancient Rome
23765. (Steve Muhlberger) [in blog Muhlberg­ers’ World His­tory] Teenagers [arti­cle]
23766. (Joanna Pyzel) After­life of Early Neolithic Houses in the Pol­ish Low­land [arti­cle]
23767. (John Keane) A Short His­tory of Banks and Democ­racy [arti­cle]
23768. (Brian Greene) Ele­gant Uni­verse: Super­strings, Hid­den Dimen­sions, and the Quest for
. . . . . the Ulti­mate The­ory
23769. (J. D. Salinger) Raise High the Roof Beam, Car­pen­ters
23770. (J. D. Salinger) Sey­mour — An Introduction

(Stephen C. Cun­nane & Kath­lyn M. Stew­art ̶ed.) Human Brain Evo­lu­tion — The Influ­ence of
Fresh­wa­ter and Marine Food Sources:
. . . . 23680. (Phillip V. Tobias) Fore­ward: Evo­lu­tion, Encephal­iza­tion, Envi­ron­ment [pref­ace]
. . . . 23681. (Kath­lyn M. Stew­art & Stephen C. Cun­nane) Intro­duc­tion [pref­ace]
. . . . 23682. (Ian Tat­ter­sall) Macroevo­lu­tion­ary Pat­terns, Exap­ta­tion, and Emer­gence in the
. . . . . . . . . Evo­lu­tion of the Human Brain and Cog­ni­tion [arti­cle]
. . . . 23683. (Michael A. Craw­ford) Long-chain Polyun­sat­u­rated Fatty Acids in Human Brain
. . . . . . . . . Evo­lu­tion [arti­cle] Read more »

Cover art by Richard Clifton-Dey for a British edi­tion of
Fritz Leiber’s “A Spec­tre Is Haunt­ing Texas”

23655. (Robert Sheck­ley) The Eye of Real­ity [story]
23656. (Richard Stone­man) Alexan­der the Great
(Elec­tronic Text Cor­pus of Sumer­ian Lit­er­a­ture) Lugal­banda and Enmerkar [Sumer­ian texts and
 Eng­lish trans­la­tions]: Read more »

From Lugal­banda:

“An will fetch Ningue­naka for me from her moun­tain home — the expert woman, who redounds to her mother’s credit, Ninkasi the expert, who redounds to her mother’s credit: her fermenting-vat is of green lapis lazuli, her beer cask is of refined sil­ver and of gold; if she stands by the beer, there is joy, if she sits by the beer, there is glad­ness; as cup­bearer she mixes the beer, never weary­ing as she walks back and forth, Ninkasi, the keg at her side, on her hips; may she make my beer-serving perfect.”

left: A Sumer­ian beer recipe. right: Receipt for a ship­ment of “best” beer from a brewer, c. 2050 BC from the Sumer­ian city of Umma. 

text from:

(Elec­tronic Text Cor­pus of Sumer­ian Lit­er­a­ture) Lugal­banda and Enmerkar [Sumer­ian texts and Eng­lish translations]:

23657. Lugal­banda
23658. Lugal­banda and the Moun­tain Cave
23659. Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta
23660. Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana